Six-time Super Bowl winning head coach Bill Belichick and four other head coaches who won Super Bowls are among the nine semifinalists in the coach category for the 2026 class for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Three of the coaches have connections to Western Pennsylvania.
They include: Buddy Parker, who won two NFL titles with Detroit in the pre-Super Bowl era, but also served as the Steelers head coach from 1957 until resigning in 1965. Also Sewickley native Chuck Knox, who went on to attend Juniata College before entering high school coaching at Tyrone and Ellwood City on his way to the NFL and Fort Cherry high school graduate Marty Schottenheimer.
The others include Dan Reeves, who participated in nine Super Bowls. Also two-time Super Bowl champion coaches Tom Coughlin, Mike Shanahan and George Seifert also advanced, along with another Super Bowl winner in Mike Holmgren.
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